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Graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Worked for Khan Academy and later focused on 3Blue1Brown.
Essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. Work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
Amos Tversky (1937-1996), a towering figure in cognitive and mathematical psychology, devoted his professional life to the study of similarity, judgment, and decision making. He had a unique ability to master the technicalities of normative ideals and then to intuit and demonstrate experimentally their systematic violation due to the vagaries and consequences of human information processing. He created new areas of study and helped transform disciplines as varied as economics, law, medicine, political science, philosophy, and statistics. This book collects forty of Tversky's articles, selected by him in collaboration with the editor during the last months of Tversky's life. It is divided into three sections: Similarity, Judgment, and Preferences. The Preferences section is subdivided into Probabilistic Models of Choice, Choice under Risk and Uncertainty, and Contingent Preferences. Included are several articles written with his frequent collaborator, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman.
Host of Quanta Magazine's The Joy of Why podcast and previously hosted The Joy of x podcast, based on his book of the same name.
British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. Influential in mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and analytic philosophy.
Historian and philosopher of science. Author of the influential book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" which introduced the term "paradigm shift".
Austrian-British philosopher, academic, and social commentator. Rejects classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favor of empirical falsification. Introduced critical rationalism as a philosophy of criticism.